DOWNTOWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE - LOT 5

The Town of Chapel Hill is partnering with Ram Development Company on a development project which will include a three-section building complex combining condominiums, retail, and parking on Town-owned Parking Lot 5. The Lot 5 site is approximately 1.73 acres located in downtown Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the intersections of West Franklin, Church, and West Rosemary Streets. 

Ram Development Company is dedicating one percent of the overall project budget for public artwork in the design of the Lot 5 site and is working with the CHPAC to coordinate its public art commissions.  Public landscape artist Mikyoung Kim was selected in December 2005 as the lead artist for this project. Kim has developed an arts master plan, proposing artworks that respond to the life cycles of light and water - phenomena that highlight the sense of place in Chapel Hill.

Two public art commissions are identified in the plan: Art Area I (represented in magenta) and Art Area II (represented in green).  In Area I Kim will create a sculptural stormwater retention and flow area.  Gordon Huether was selected in February 2008 to create art for Area II, which may include architectural integration with areas of the development on Rosemary Street and Church Streets at Lot 5.

Click here for the Arts Master Plan

Click here for the preliminary design of Kim's work for Art Area I

For more information about the overall project, please visit:

http://townhall.townofchapelhill.org/projects/dedi

http://www.ramrealestate.com/properties/overview.php?id=32